a little about

I come from a very artistic family. My Dad is an oil painter and sculptor, my brother Luke is an amazing sketch artist and painter and my brother Adam is a talented satirical cartoonist. Megan, my sister and Mum (my mother) do not have an artistic bone between them, however we still thank they are lovely and try to include them in family activities wherever we can :). Up until 2005, painting was also my major artistic outlet until eventually a camera replaced my paintbrush and creating art through photography became my primary passion.

It's been a few years now since I had the realisation that photography was going to be a huge part of the rest of my life and here I am, a full time professional photographer fortunate enough to be doing something I love for a living, specialising in Fine Art Photography and, of course Wedding Photography (with a twist).

Documentary could be described as the technique I use when shooting my weddings. I love to tell stories through imagery - to deliver a visual narrative. My influences in paint and contemporary art contribute to a smaller but just as important part of the capture process. I put everything I have into everything I do, simply because I don’t know how do it any other way.

I am a fully accredited Associate member of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) and to date I have been fortunate enough to have my fine art Illustrative work exhibited extensively Australia-wide and held in collections as far away as London.

Yearly Archives: 2012

It was the last wedding of an incredibly busy season and my last “portrait” of that season. There is a lot in this image for me personally, it was cold, we were tired and these two didn’t notice anything outside of each other (except for maybe the idling 4wheel drive truck parked behind them with […]

Well, where do I begin… Almost a year ago today I received an email from the (then) excited bride to be Tara… She told me that my work moved her and asked me if I would consider shooting her wedding at an abandoned Mansion (Alder Manor) in New York. I took about zero seconds to […]

Nick-Hahaha. That gif – grinding the dancefloor. So great. The rest of it was very excellent too. Nice work guys!

alyda-holy shitola daniel. this is my fav ever wedding that you have shot. so many amazing amazing photos. goodness me.

Pookie-dude. you should TOTALLY think about doing this wedding photography thing full time… i mean seriously. i reckon if you really put yourself out there, you could easily book 10, 12 weddings a year! (love you dizzie! you rock.) :) :)

Myekie-Sublime! My new Fav of all time Mr.Dan. Love it brother so good.

samm blake-ah danny, such a pleasure to be your sidekick on this one. what a fucking amazing and intensely good day it was. love when we get to shoot together, seeing how you see and interact with the world, the lovely little perspective you have on it all..its beautiful. you have taught me a lot my lil dear friend. xoxoxoxo

Brian Furbush-These are just insane man, gorgeous venue and I love the emotion that you captured in just about every frame.

tara treacy -dan o day, you are my world. this day will live on forever and ever, captured absolutely perfectly! just like i told you in our first emails, i knew, like i knew about my future husband, you were the ONE. ha! xoxoox t&p

Mercedes-I’ve looked at this post several times over now. I keep seeing things I missed the time before. It’s beautiful.

Karen-Dan – never have I EVER seen anything as amazing as this.. I wish the whole world could view these photos… X

Dee -These photographs are AMAZING! Love every single shot – stunning! Do you know if the bride is reselling this dress? I am extremely interested! If so, can you please pass my email along? dmj816@gmail.com. Thanks!

Kim-Wow! Couple has such great taste. My fave is the portraits of the groom. That is just one of them..

yan palmer-first time ive seen a whole wedding from you. blown away. moved. inspired. well done.

Jeni-I am looking for the exact same dress.. is there any chance I can get in contact with Tara about the fit with the altered back??
also looking for a photographer for our wedding on 3rd April in Wanaka NZ..
Cheers
Jen

This Saturday gone Alex and Ben locked it in. I came along for the ride and they allowed me to experiment a bit through the location shoot with my Fuji XPro1. Below was the result of about 10 mins of double exposing fun. Alex and Ben, thanks for letting me be me. Happy Honeymoon!

So i have just returned from a week in the southern highlands at The Seidler House after holding Art and the Heart {Southern Highlands} workshop with my good friend Samm. I had the pleasure of meeting some amazing new friends and I will post in much more details about the experience in the next couple […]

Temecula Wedding Photographer-good grief….this has to be one of the best engagement shoots I have ever seen posted from any wedding photographer. I really love the negative space shoot (photo #2) and ..well…they all kick ass so I am not even going to rate them in a particular order. Solid stuff #BAM

In February this year I exhibited a new body of fine art work in Melbourne at the gallery I am currently represented by, Catherine Asquith Gallery. I wanted to then bring the show back home to canberra, back to the gallery that gave me my start in the fine art photography world, Photoacces {Huw Davies […]

sammy blake-it is so good to see all these images hanging all the walls. through all the resistance you made it through !!! so proud of you my dear! and so proud I get to be one of you muses and be one of the subjects in your art! hahaha ;) I’ll climb up another giant termite mound for you any day. see you sooon dannny! xoxoxo

chris prestidge-my favourite work of yours yet, absolutely love this series dan!